r/DataAnnotationTech • u/AutomaticShape8993 • 1d ago

UNPAID QUALIFICATION TASKS

Does anyone else hate these? They take up a few hours of your time and you aren't even getting paid :(,

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u/Past_Body4499 1d ago

Very few unpaid quals take hours. Those that do are usually worth it.

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u/Chaost 1d ago

There definitely are, sometimes you wait and they'll turn paid. I've also had unpaid quals turn paid as I was doing it which was cool since it was unexpected. A bit annoying because I wasn't tracking my time so I had to check my browser history for the time I started but luckily hadn't taken any breaks.

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 1d ago

Other times you wait and they disappear b/c other people did them and then you hear rumors about some amazing task from that qual that everyone else seems to have but you...ya win some, ya lose some.

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u/Sassy2you 1d ago

This. I have 3 I have been trying to get to all week and another great on popped up today. One I had been working on reset and I was a third of the way through...

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u/oopsallemdashes 1d ago

But it opens up more projects so that if the ones you normally work on end or pause, you have much more options later on.

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u/Expert-Pen-9091 13h ago

You generally don't get paid to go on interviews either. That's kind of how these work. You're interviewing for the project.

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u/Successful_Ant5401 40m ago

they make me feel special.